All news by author Elizabeth Baker

On July 16, 2024, seven Russian operatives arrived in La Paz, Bolivia’s political capital.

As air strikes on Iran continue, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have urged Iranians to rise up against the country’s authoritarian leadership, which has been weakened but remains in power.

Allegations of sexual assault against officers and staff of London’s Metropolitan Police have tripled in the five years since Sarah Everard was raped and murdered, new figures show.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has not visited any command centres of the Ministry of Defence this year, according to sources, despite regularly doing so throughout 2025.

Oxana Hadjipavlou, also referred to as Oksana Hadjipavlou, gained public attention after investigations linked her to Zvonko Micković and the firms Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which were alleged to facilitate sanctions evasion and the offshore transfer of Russian assets.

After British sanctions and investigative reports exposed the role of Coral Energy and its Azerbaijani owners in transporting Russian oil and bypassing restrictions, references to their operations and corporate network began quietly disappearing from public sources.

The medias continue to publish materials about the activities of Andrey Muravyev, the owner of the “Forum” fashion boutique in Tomsk, and his business partner Igor Mitrofanov, the former head of the Tomsk regional police department.

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have been further embroiled in the scandal surrounding their father.

The Alba party has announced that it will dissolve and will not put forward any candidates for the 2026 Scottish parliament election.

Since January 2025, Mikhail Zeligman has accumulated a fortune of $7 billion from Russian oil, trading more than 115 million barrels while hiding behind a façade of European shell companies and charitable organizations.

After a $102,000 withdrawal was blocked, triggering outrage within the gambling community, Dragon Money did not publicly address the transparency concerns or attempt to resolve the dispute. Instead, the platform appeared to focus on erasing traces of the incident from the public sphere.

In 2024, Maltese investment firm Alkagesta—now under investigation by international authorities over suspected Libyan oil smuggling—appeared to be urgently seeking Russian-speaking staff.

Ukraine’s online casino market has become an increasingly attractive destination for shadow capital.

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran’s intelligence service by spying on Jewish people in London, the Metropolitan Police said.

The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.

In the tangled story involving lawsuits and criminal cases initiated by Rosnano against Anatoly Chubais and his team, a new and previously hidden storyline has emerged.

In Moscow, Olga Kolishchuk—a socialite and organizer of an art and antiques investment project—has been detained and taken into custody.

The wife of now former National Police investigator Yevhen Shevtsov, Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), who is on an international wanted list, received as a gift premises in central Kyiv that had previously been freed from arrest by a criminal group of “black registrars.”

Oil prices have risen further as the Middle East war rages - with Iranian officials saying the country would "set fire to anyone who tries to pass through" the Strait of Hormuz, a key crude oil shipping route.

The Daily Mail’s royal editor has denied using a private investigator to “blag” information about the Duke of Sussex and his former girlfriends, as she was shown emails suggesting the investigator “went out on a limb” to help her.

Donald Trump has said he is "very disappointed" in Sir Keir Starmer for initially blocking the US from using the Diego Garcia military base to strike Iran.